http://jeffwhipple.ca/2008/09/05/speaking-of-learning/ Musings about technology and learning... Fri, 16 Jul 2010 23:24:42 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.2 hourly 1 http://jeffwhipple.ca/2008/09/05/speaking-of-learning/comment-page-1/#comment-1663 Jan Smith Sat, 06 Sep 2008 00:44:39 +0000 http://edutrails.edublogs.org/?p=243#comment-1663 Funny you should ask. I had an epiphany of my own when I put my professional platform through Wordle. I had intended to do action research on enactment (drama) strategies. However, the word 'technology' popped big in the cloud, so now I am trying to re-orient my project. As far as Wordle itself, I have blogged about some useful & useless applications of it<a href="http://resiever.edublogs.org/2008/07/26/the-unexamined-tool/" rel="nofollow">here</a>,but in general I think it tends towards a gadget-y feel. In the right hands, illuminating, otherwise just a cool trick. It must be validating to see that those two words show up in greatest frequency for you. Funny you should ask. I had an epiphany of my own when I put my professional platform through Wordle. I had intended to do action research on enactment (drama) strategies. However, the word ‘technology’ popped big in the cloud, so now I am trying to re-orient my project.
As far as Wordle itself, I have blogged about some useful & useless applications of ithere,but in general I think it tends towards a gadget-y feel. In the right hands, illuminating, otherwise just a cool trick.
It must be validating to see that those two words show up in greatest frequency for you.

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